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April 18, 2008
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I was determined to clean up the drawing table, and made a little progress. I was going to
put away the book about the recent Tutankhamun exhibit, but took time to look at it again, intrigued by a piece of paper I'd
left as a bookmark. It wasn't long before I felt inspired, by a griffin (or perhaps more accurately, a sphinx, since it
has a human head) on a ceremonial shield. Oh, yes, it is not an 'exact copy', heh heh... In the original, Tutankhamun as sphinx is trampling the enemy.
"An inscription before the sphinx king reads, 'The good god, who tramples the foreign lands; who smites the great ones of all
the foreign lands; lord of might like the son of Nut, ferocious like Montu, who dwells in Thebes; King of Upper and Lower
Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands, Nebkhepure, given life, son of Re whom he loves, Tutankhamun, like Re."
(_Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs_, page 199)
All that ferocity, for the Pharoah was seen as leader of the army. However, it amused me to have the griffin smiting a small trouble, a mouse. (If it pleases you, you can imagine that he is not even 'smiting', but merely catching the bothersome invader and removing him from his castle.)
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